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    Role of Honeybees in Agriculture
    Honeybees are indispensable contributors to agriculture, serving as vital pollinators for a diverse array of crops. Beyond honey production, their pollination services play a pivotal role in global food production and biodiversity. The relationship between honeybees and agriculture is symbiotic, with bees benefiting from floral resources while ensuring plant reproduction. Prolific pollinators, honeybees transfer pollen […]
    Duration: 04:44:00
    Mulberry Cultivation
    Mulberry trees are grown mainly for their leaves which are the major food for silk worms. The process of growing mulberry trees involves growing and maintaining the trees, rearing silk worms and harvesting the silk. Mulberry cultivation practices Site selection. Choose a well drained site with fertile soils and good sunlight exposure for mulberry farming. […]
    Duration: 04:47:00
    Stingless Honey Bee Farming in PVC Pipe | Beekeeping in Pipe
    These bees are generally smaller than honey bees and play a crucial role in surveillance. They defend the hive by biting intruders, though for humans, it feels more like a tickle. Wooden hives are commonly used due to their durability. These hives are compartmentalized, allowing bees to utilize different chambers for various purposes. This design […]
    Duration: 03:28:00
    Sustainable Insect and Pest Management Practices | Integrated Pest Management System
    Biological control employs strategies such as introducing natural predators, parasites, or pathogens to regulate pest populations. It also involves fostering the presence of beneficial insects and organisms that prey on pests. Crop Rotation and Polyculture strategies include alternating the cultivation of different crops in the same field to disrupt pest life cycles and planting diverse […]
    Duration: 04:46:00
    Importance of Honey Bees in Agriculture | Role of Honey bee in Agriculture
    These industrious creatures are not merely visitors to flowers; they are pollination maestros. Their foraging behavior, driven by the quest for nectar and pollen, inadvertently initiates a magical process as they move from one flower to another. This delicate dance of pollination fertilizes plants, ensuring the development of seeds and fruits. Harvesting Abundance: The impact […]
    Duration: 11:32:00
    Silk cocoon harvesting and processing in the factory
    When farming silk worms, you need to keep the environment so clean. Nutritious food is dropped on silkworm eggs waiting to hatch and after hatching and molting, they eat a lot and grow up very fast. While feeding the silk worms, you need to evenly distribute the food to the silk worms. Farming silkworms When […]
    Duration: 14:12:00
    Silk Worm farming and harvesting process – How is silk made in China? silk production process steps
    Silk production As the silk fibre is taken by the farmer before the cycle is completed by the caterpillar, it is soaked to become loose and silk is taken by weaving machine and take 2.5 hours to make a metre of silk material.
    Duration: 09:29:31
    How to turn silk worm farming into a money spinner
    Silk worm only feed on leaves from one particular plant called the mulberry. In order to do silk worm farming on a large scale, you need to plant mulberry trees of different varieties on large scale.  Popular mulberry varieties The popular varieties of mulberry include Pakistan mulberry from Islamabad Pakistan which has very large fruits […]
    Duration: 04:53:00
    Complete process of silk worm farming and how silkworm cocoons are turned into silk
    Sericulture is an ancient practice that originated from china and has spread to various parts of the world. Silk worms are the larvae of silk moth and feed on the leaves of mulberry trees. Sericulture Sericulture involves careful management of silk worms from eggs to cocoon, extraction and processing. Silk worm farming begins from securing […]
    Duration: 04:46:00
    Importance of Honey Bees in Agriculture
    Their foraging behavior, guided by their search for nectar and pollen, unwittingly facilitates the transfer of pollen grains from the male reproductive organs to their female counterparts. This vital pollination process is what brings about the development of seeds and fruits in plants. Importance of Bees Scientific research underscores the significance of honeybees in the […]
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